N-COUNT (人、生活或工作)刻板乏味,一成不变,老一套 If you say that someone is in a rut, you disapprove of the fact that they have become fixed in their way of thinking and doing things, and find it difficult to change. You can also say that someone's life or career is in a rut.
I don't like being in a rut — I like to keep moving on... 我不喜欢一成不变的生活——我喜欢不断进取。
Many over 30s feel stuck in a financial rut. 很多超过30岁的人都觉得自己的经济状况很难有所改变。
N-COUNT 车辙 A rut is a deep, narrow mark made in the ground by the wheels of a vehicle.
Our driver slowed up as we approached the ruts in the road. 当驶近路上的车辙时,我们的司机放慢了速度。
...the deep ruts left by the trucks' heavy wheels. 卡车沉重的轮子留下的很深的车辙
N-SING (动物的)发情期 The rut is the period of the year when some animals such as deer are sexually active, and the males fight each other to mate with the females.
...two elks sparring during the autumn rut. 两头麋鹿在秋季的发情期互相打斗
He lurched the car in reverse along the ruts to the access road. 他顺着车辙摇摇晃晃地将车倒到了支路上。
Our driver slowed up as we approached the ruts in the road. 当驶近路上的车辙时,我们的司机放慢了速度。
The arena was scarred by deep muddy ruts. 赛场上留下了深深的车辙泥痕。
They point to places like Argentina and Russia, which defaulted and briefly struggled before emerging from their economic ruts unexpectedly well. 他们指出,阿根廷、俄罗斯等国在经历了违约后的短暂沉浮后,很快就出乎意料地重回正轨。
Suddenly the enormous mass was seen to quiver, the cart rose slowly, the wheels half emerged from the ruts. 忽然,大家看见那一大堆东西动摇起来了,车子慢慢上升了,轮子已从泥坑里起来了一半。
Passengers were still complaining about the ruts in the road but that's about all that was the same. 乘客们仍然在一直抱怨着路上的车辙,但是情况还是和以前一样。
Thorough planning can help smooth out the road, but there will be some ruts in the road that threaten to rip the wheels off of the car. 通过周密的计划能够铺平道路,但是总有着一些不平可能会让你有翻车的危险。
Yet, as the year progresses, we often get stuck in ruts and routines. 然而随着时间流逝,我们常常陷在自己的日常琐事里。
The photos also show ruts left by a roving vehicle and even backpacks pitched out of the lunar landers before the US visitors returned to Earth. 照片上还清楚地显示了探险车在月球表面留下的车辙,以及美宇航员返航前从着陆舱中丢弃的背包。
They had not gone far, but had gone by some very uncomfortable places, such as brick-fields and tile-yards, when the old woman turned down a dirty lane, where the mud lay in deep black ruts in the middle of the road. 她们没有走得很远,只是走过了像砖厂、瓦厂这样一些很索然无趣、毫无快感的地方,这时候老太婆转到一条肮脏的小巷,巷子里路中间深深的黑色车辙中注满了泥浆。
The ruts under snow; believe bitter fruits, certainly are still waving. 雪下的辙痕;相信青涩的果实,一定还在舞动。
The farm carts have worn ruts in this field. 火车在这块地里轧出了辙痕。
Commissary wagons with torn canvas covers rocked through the ruts. They took their oars and began to pull from the shore, then spread their sail, and drove merrily across the firth. 盖着破帆布的军需车摇摇晃晃地在凌乱的车辙中驶着。他们先摇了一阵橹使船离岸,接着扬起帆,驾着小船欢乐地渡过河口。
Ordinarily the surface is hard with rock-strewn sections commonplace, while ruts will often form after the first pass. 通常布满碎石的赛道会显得比较硬,而跑过一趟之后就会出现一些坑槽。
How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity! 想人世的公路如何给践踏得尘埃蔽天,传统和习俗形成了何等深的车辙!
The truck made two ruts in the dirt road. 卡车在泥路上轧出两道沟。
Some people never get out of their ruts. 有些人永远摆脱不了陈规旧习。
Eclipses move us out of ruts, get us more excited or alert-in short they do whatever they have to do in order to keep us moving forward. 蚀会使我们偏离轨道,让我们更亢奋或更警惕&简而言之,它们会做任何事以使我们继续前进。
In the midst of the file of Cossacks two waggons, drawn by French horses, and Cossack saddle-horses hitched on in front, rumbled over stumps and branches, and splashed through the ruts full of water. 在拉得很长的哥萨克队伍中间,有两辆套着法国马和带马鞍的哥萨克马的大车在树桩和枯枝上颠簸着,车辙积满了水,大车发出扑哧扑哧的声响。
Habitual thought patterns are like ruts in a dirt road. 习惯性思考规律就像一条泥巴路上的深车轮印。
Down the dirt road my four-wheel drive bounced over ruts and rocks as I followed the creek that had given us "fantastic,"" beautiful,"" amazing" trout. 沿着那条给了我们“奇异的”、“漂亮的”、“美妙的”鳟鱼的小溪,我的车子颠簸在尘土飞扬、凹凸不平的路上。
In the desert two deep ruts could be seen. 沙漠,两道深深的车辙。
The ruts flattened out under the pressure of wheels. 地面上的车辙给车轮压平了。
He looked for ruts and cracks but found only a pile of warm dung deposited by one of the horses. 他想寻找车辙和裂缝但所见只有一堆由某匹马留下的冒着热气的的粪便。
He will draw his sword and threaten the East, and he will fill with blood the ruts made by his wheels. 他会用他的剑来威胁东方,他会利用车轮,让车辙涂上了血。
There were deep ruts worn in the road. 路面上有磨损而形成的深凹辙迹。
She looked down the glaring red road, cut in deep ruts where cannon wheels and ambulances had gone over it. 她顺着红光闪烁的大路向前望去,只见路上尽是深陷的车辙,那是炮车和救护车碾过后留下来的。
Scientists, like all other human beings, may get into ruts and apply their techniques regardless of varying circumstances. 科学家与其他人一样,可能陷入一定模式,因而不分场合地应用他们的技术。
Eventually help came and we were towed out of the huge ruts, my tires as smooth as a baby's behind. 帮手终于来了,我们被拖出巨大的槽沟,轮胎光滑得就像婴儿的屁股蛋。
My bike bumped over the ruts. 我的自行车在凹凸不平的车辙道上颠颠簸簸。